REPORT: New York state blocks second school district from adopting transgender bathroom ban

December 5, 2025

From the New York Post: Another Long Island school district has been blocked from enforcing its transgender bathroom ban after the state stepped in to freeze the controversial policy, according to New York and local officials.

Locust Valley School District’s resolution to prohibit transgender students from using bathrooms and locker rooms that don’t align with their biological sex cannot be enforced thanks to a new order issued by state Education Commissioner Betty Rosa on Nov. 18.

The district’s bathroom ban — instituted by Locust Valley’s school board about a month earlier — is nearly identical to the also-frozen and first-in-the-state ban passed in Massapequa just weeks before.

“In accordance with the Commissioner’s directive, and absent an overriding administrative or judicial determination, the district must now follow the Commissioner’s interpretation of state law, which is that students may use a bathroom or locker room consistent with their gender Identity,” the school board said in a statement.

The New York Civil Liberties Union had previously challenged the Massapequa school district’s policy on behalf of a transgender student.

The two school districts had recently announced a rule requiring all students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that matched their sex assigned at birth.

Now the schools are in the legal fight together, as state Democrat officials insists biological males must be allowed in girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms.